I caught all kinds of hell for this post about how Terminator star Linda Hamilton was aging… well, let’s just say “less than gracefully”. Several people left nasty comments, the worst of which I deleted before they ever went public. And so, in order to counter the claims of ageism from that post, let me show you how 80s pop star Samantha Fox is getting along these days.
First off, a picture from her Page 3 Girl glory days, not too long before “Touch Me (I Want Your Body)” became a hit in the UK and US:
Woof! Check out these new pictures of Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks from New York magazine:
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As someone on an anonymous Internet message board once said, Christina Hendricks “makes you wonder why God bothered creating other women in the first place”.
Morven Christie is a Scottish actress. According to Wiki, she “grew up in Scotland, splitting her time between Glasgow and Aviemore. She traveled and worked a series of jobs including teaching skiing, before studying acting at the Drama Centre London, graduating in 2003. Christie has worked on stage, film and television drama since. She currently lives in North London”.
I think she’s as cute as a button, and looks a bit like a Scottish Piper Perabo:
Not a whole lot going on here at the house – I’m in the midst of the Great MP3 Cleanup of 2010, and checking the artwork and dates on 14,000 files takes a surprising amount of time (sarcasm) – so I’ll just post two quick pics.
Dita von Teese posted this pic on her Twitpic account. It’s apparently a very young Dita in her “first corset”:
What do ya think? I like her hair! Sure black is good, but variety is good also.
Mila Kunis, known mostly for her role as Jackie Burkhart on That 70’s Show, was born in 1983 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine (which was part of the Soviet Union at the time). Her family moved to Los Angeles in 1991, and Kunis immediately enrolled in acting classes, even though she could barely speak English.
After a brief stint modeling and doing commercials for Lisa Frank, Barbie, and Payless Shoes, she had minor roles in Days of our Lives and 7th Heaven, as well as a bit part playing Angelina Jolie’s younger sister in the film Gia. All this led to an audition for That 70’s Show, where she lied to show staff and told them that she was 18 (she was only 14 at the time). The staff liked her performance so much that they overlooked her little lie.
She has since starred in several films, and took over the role of Meg from Lacey Chabert on Family Guy. She has dated Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin since 2002. She is also revered in the geek community for her self-professed love of video games, especially World of Warcraft.
I always felt a kind of… bond with Brittany Murphy. Sure, she was really cute and everything. But even though it sounds silly, I always thought it was kind of neat that we were both born the same hospital, albeit six years apart.
Murphy’s rise to fame started with her appearance in Clueless in 1995. I loved her in the criminally underrated 1996 film Freeway was Reese Witherspoon and Keifer Sutherland. Roles in Drop Dead Gorgeous and Girl, Interrupted (both 1999) led to her first major starring role in Don’t Say a Word (2001), a thriller with Michael Douglas. This led to her role in 8 Mile, which made her a bona fide movie star. She appeared in many films since then including Just Married, Uptown Girls, Sin City, The Groomsmen, Love and Other Disasters, Happy Feet, and The Ramen Girl.
Murphy also had aspirations of being a pop singer. In 2006 she released the single “Faster Kill Pussycat” with British DJ Paul Oakenfold. The tune hit #1 on the Billboard dance chart in the US, and #7 on the UK singles charts. She also sang two songs on the Happy Feet soundtrack. For the past couple of years, Murphy’s Wikipedia page mentioned that she was working on an album of her own, although that was edited out of the page in the months before she died.
The one thing I’ll really remember Brittany Murphy for was her longtime role as Luanne Platter on the animated series King of the Hill. Some folks seemed surprised that it was Murphy’s voice on the show. I think it was unmistakably her.
It might seem crass, but I wanted to post a few pictures of her. She really was quite pretty, don’t you think?
